Is Jorge Posada classy or a diva?

Joe Girardi put slumping Jorge Posada in the 9th spot in the lineup for today's Red Sox - Yankees game. This isn't a situation like Jason Varitek's miserable start. The Sox captain is batting ninth with his rotten numbers because the pitching staff just doesn't like throwing to Jarrod Saltalamacchia.Posada is no longer a catcher. He is a DH. His ONLY job is to hit. And roughly 25% of the way he

The All Time Former Cub World Championship Team - A New 25 Man Roster

If you have been a Cubs fan the past few generations, you have seen some of your favorite players experience post season glory.In a 9 year span in the 1980s, three of your bullpen closers got the final out of the World Series.And another was the starting pitcher in three consecutive World Series openers.One homered in two straight LCS games to clinch the pennant and then won Game 1 of the World

I hate to say "I told you so"... no wait! I LOVE saying "I told you so"

10 days ago I wrote a blog post... basically calling Joe Girardi's pitching rotation for the ALCS insane. I thought that lining up the rotation so Sabathia would not be available to pitch Game 7, flip flopping Hughes and Pettitte so Andy faced Cliff Lee and throwing A. J. Burnett in Game 4 gave the Rangers a clear and almost unfair advantage in Games 3, 4 and 7. In other words, Girardi had set

Are the Yankees insane?

Let's say you are organizing the entertainment at a casino.While putting the line up of shows together, you realize that you can have Frank Sinatra perform three nights... but you say "Nah... we only want Frank for two nights. We need to save his voice, so we'll book Steve Lawrence instead for a night."And when lining up the shows you say "We won't have Sinatra in our biggest show. We're booking

Girardi is not so dumb now, is he?

When the Yankees and Rays were going down the stretch, there were a lot of Yankee fans killing Joe Girardi for not playing all of his veterans in every game. "They HAVE to win the Division!" was the rallying cry.I heard one person KILLING Girardi for not using Mariano Rivera in both games of a double header in the last meaningless weekend of the series.The Rays won the Division... the Yankees are

Girardi and Vazquez talk on the mound

At one point during a typical Javier Vazquez start (less then 5 innings, more than 5 runs) he got hit by a line from Blue Jays' John Buck.Joe Girardi and the training staff came running out to talk to him.GIRARDI: Javy! Are you alright?VAZQUEZ: I'm fine skip. Let's play ball.GIRARDI: Man this looks bad. You could have been killed.VAZQUEZ: What are you talking about? I picked it up, I threw the

Walk away if you win #28, Joe

Hey Joe Girardi… take a good long look at what has happened to the legacy of Joe Torre. Only Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel had ever managed three straight World Series winners before Torre and he brought class and dignity to the Yankee clubhouse along with his titles.And today he is being portrayed as a manipulator, a man with a tarnished legacy and even those are questioning whether he belongs